New on Netflix, Amazon Prime and other services week of Feb. 21

“A Star Is Born” (2018, R), Bradley Cooper’s latest remake of the Hollywood classic with Lady Gaga in the starring role, earned eight Academy Award nominations. You can catch up with the film before the Oscars are handed out on Sunday, along with “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” (2018, R) featuring Oscar nominees Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant, on Cable On Demand and VOD. Also on DVD and at Redbox.

Foreign language film nominee “Shoplifters” (2018, Japan, R, with subtitles), which took home the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival last year, is on Cable On Demand, VOD, and DVD.

Ray Romano and Mark Duplass play neighbors and best friends in “Paddleton” (2019, not rated), a low-key comedy with a dramatic gut-punch: one of them is dying of cancer and the two reminisce and argue on a road trip to secure end-of-life drugs. The film, co-written and produced by Mark and Jay Duplass, comes to Netflix direct from its premiere at Sundance.

Actor and former member of President Obama’s White House team Kal Penn hosts “This Giant Beast That is the Global Economy,” an eight-part documentary series from producers Adam McKay and Will Ferrell that uses humor to explore the complexities of the world economy. Streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

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World War II action meets monster movie in “Overlord” (2018, R), a thriller with Nazi super-soldier zombies. Also new:

the latest revival of “Robin Hood” (2018, PG-13), this one with Taron Egerton and Jamie Foxx;

“Lords of Chaos” (2018, R), a based-on-a-true-story drama that arrives two weeks after its theatrical debut.

Available same day as select theaters nationwide is thriller “The Changeover” (2019, not rated), based on the award-winning children’s novel by Margaret Mahy and starring Timothy Spall, Melanie Lynksey, and Lucy Lawless, and racing drama “Trading Paint” (2019, R) with John Travolta.

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“The Photographer of Mauthausen” (2018, Spain, not rated, with subtitles) dramatizes the true story of Catalan photographer Francesc Boix, who documented and smuggled evidence of atrocities out of a Nazi concentration camp in World War II.

Also new: Jude Law leads a shady submarine crew into the “Black Sea” (2015, R) to find a fortune in sunken gold;

“Paris Is Us” (France, 2019, not rated, with subtitles), starring a young woman stars to lose her grip on reality after missing an airline flight that crashes in

“Firebrand” (India, 2019, not rated, with subtitles), a Marathi-language drama about sexism and trauma produced by Priyank Chopra.

True stories: “Studio 54” (2018, not rated) looks back on the iconic club that epitomized the glamor and excess of the disco era and “Period. End of Sentence.” (not rated, with subtitles) is nominated in the documentary short subjects category at this year’s Oscars.

Streaming TV: the Canadian comedy “Workin’ Moms: Season 1” follows four thirtysomething friends trying to balance jobs, family, and love lives in Toronto. Also new:

young adult drama “GO! Live Your Way” (Argentina) set in a high school drama for the performing arts;

Hilary Swank and Michael Shannon star in the drama “What They Had” (2018, R), playing siblings with an ailing mother (Blythe Danner) and a father (Robert Forster) resistant to letting her go to a care facility.

Two of the best crime dramas of the 1980s are now streaming in their entirety. “Wiseguy: Complete Series” (1987-1990), starring Ken Wahl as a deep-cover cop, pioneered the long-form storytelling now familiar on cable TV with multi-episode stories featuring such actors as Stanley Tucci, Kevin Spacey, Maximilian Schell, and (in a rare dramatic role) Jerry Lewis. “Crime Story: Complete Series” (1986-1988), produced by Michael Mann, is a stylish series starring Denis Farina as the head of a squad taking on organized crime in Chicago and Las Vegas.

Foreign affairs: Jiri Menzel’s Oscar-nominated comedy “My Sweet Little Village” (Czechoslovakia, 1985, not rated, with subtitles) is still considered the most popular film of all time in the former Czechoslovakia.

Available Saturday night is the HBO original movie “O.G.” (2019, not rated) starring Jeffrey Wright and the companion documentary “It’s a Hard Truth Ain’t It” (2019, not rated).

Other streams

The new “Desus & Mero” features TV and podcast personalities hosting a weekly talk show. New episodes Thursday nights on Showtime Anytime.

The 12-part Dutch crime thriller “The Oldenheim Twelve” (Netherlands, with subtitles) debuts in the U.S. on Acorn TV. Also new is the TV movie “Marvellous” (2014, not rated), a heart-warming, based-on-a-true-story drama starring Toby Jones.